Just the Facts
- Our firm was founded in 1907
- Our Managing Partner is John Brown. Email: jbrown@harpergrey.com Phone: 604 895 2803
- We are a member of the international legal network TAGLaw
The numbers
- Our legal staff is comprised of 59 lawyers and 15 paralegals
- Over 90% of our lawyers practice exclusively litigation
- We have a team of 5 top business lawyers to provide our clients with advice on their corporate/commercial legal matters
- We have 92 support staff including researchers, librarians and IT specialists
- Percentage of women lawyers to male lawyers: 34% women lawyers
- Number of languages spoken: 14. English, French, German, Farsi, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Cantonese, Gujarati, Mandarin, Serbo Croatian, Punjabi, Urdu, and Yiddish.
What’s in a name?
- Our firm name stands for two former partners of the firm: Mr. Arthur Harper and Mr. Harvey Grey. Both are well-respected litigators with long and successful practices
- Mr. Harper also kindly lent his name to the first assistance dog we sponsored through the Pacific Assistance Dog Society
- LLP stands for limited liability partnership
In the Courtroom
- Number of reported decisions at the British Columbia Supreme Court since 2000: 351
- Number of reported decisions at the BC Court of Appeal since 1997: 157
- Number of civil cases heard before the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in the last decade: 18
- Most recent appearance before the SCC: Blackwater vs Plint, October 2005






